To be honest, I want to do a calculation how much it would take to live without a job but baking/cooking everything from scratch, and other simplified life things.

I feel like most retirement calculators assume you’re going to be living exactly as you were, but food, transportation, many living costs are higher to save time that a job takes up. So it’s partially a self-reinforcing cycle.

Instead, I think in retirement my costs would go away down, and I’d at the same time be doing things that feel meaningful, like baking my own bread. But maybe I’m delusional.

That’s the spirit!

(but you’re right of course)

Thank you for this. I plan to look at the authentication part more closely, but that’s the part I can’t quite figure out (being an amateur at this stuff but still trying), since I’m nervous with just a password accessing it remotely or from the phone.

Authelia, NGINX, there is so much that’s confusing to me, but this might help.

Final Fantasy 8 still getting no love, I see…

The articles have been confusing - I guess they’re announcing a physical location, but also it’s a digital archive you can access on a website. Don’t know why they have a landing page that doesn’t clearly link to it: https://archive.gamehistory.org/

They may just have taken down the link because it’s getting hugged to death.

It’s 2025, misinformation is rampant. And here you’re all acting like we can just trust that this is Windows 3.11 and not XP running a VM. Wake up sheeple!

Edit: /s needed?

Well, there may be an imminent incoming pandemic, or it’s just normal fascism things, like turning off all public information and then whitelisting propaganda-safe data to be turned back on when it’s vetted. Can’t really tell which possibility is a worse sign of things to come.

No, they worked for me between 15-10 years ago, but I get it - by all accounts now they’re so enshittified that it’s just Match parasitically turning loneliness into profit at ever greater efficiency. They would have failed immediately if they didn’t work long enough to capture enough market and attention.

As others mentioned OK Cupid, and it’s a great example. It was originally very good at matching people, and they took pride in it. I remember when Match bought it, as I had recently (just in time) found my person. I was able to see it go from “No, we’re leaving it alone, just tweaking a few things” to ending the interesting data-exploration articles, dumbing down the experience, adding micro-pay-gating, and fully gutting the experience and staff. Nobody should have trusted Match to not destroy what it was, and if they hadn’t sold and remained a useable app, maybe the market would have abandoned Match. Instead, here we are.

I don’t envy those people still looking, I assume best case is still using apps but you just have to waste a lot more time.

It looks like a tiny watermark that’s been lost to compression.

It lasted three days if that’s any indication…

We went to Japan and on the advice of the locals, tried the raw chicken dish. Everyone got crippling explosive diarrhea. They’re more confident about it than they probably should be.

This seems like a good place to start:

https://github.com/antifa-n/pihole

… In Minecraft.

*FSR4

Ahhhhhhhh!

I’m having a particularly braindead morning. Mario and Luigi are two people. 1 in 3 leaves the possibility of a third person being ugly and both Mario and Luigi being not ugly. Why does Mario conclude Luigi is ugly based on the 1 in 3 comment?

Oh, if so, then nevermind.

I assume it’s going to be a cloud connected screen that streams games. There’s no current way to get thermal and power requirements met for PS5 on a handheld. They’re just trying to remove the in-home PS5 requirement from the Portal.

Don’t you dare speak that into existence.

There are three practical reasons Trump does this:

1. Deflection: Trump doesn’t have an affirmative platform. As a populist strongman, Trump’s platform is situational and entirely based on what his supporters want to hear in any given moment. If health care is in the news, Trump will say his plan is coming in two weeks (it won’t ever come). If immigration is in the news, Trump will say he will build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it (he won’t). But what’s even easier? Focusing on the shortcomings of the opponent’s platform. Any time this works, Trump saves himself an opportunity to be put under the microscope.
2. Deflection: Manipulating the media works. Trump knows that the more ludicrous things he says about Kamala, even if the media then starts to talk about how he’s wrong or fact-check him, the focus is still on the thing he said rather than Kamala’s platform. It’s subtle, but it really does focus the media effectively on whatever he says, and use his frame of that issue as the media’s frame.
3. Filling the echo chambers and other spaces. We’re in our own echo chambers like never before. Trump says these things so that the people in the right-wing echo chambers have a plausible response to Kamala’s policies, or even just need filler for their broadcast/websites/Facebook groups. Ultimately there is only so much media people can consume every day. If Trump has filled all relevant supporter spaces with his own opinions & framing, there is no time or energy left to explore other opinions and framing.

I hope you’re right.